. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE remain* of a large I /th-century fireplace ; its chimney corners are now hidden by cupboards. There is an old timber bake-house on the north side of the house, and a contemporary bridge-house of timber and plaster .-pans the moat. Pirton Hall, a large red brick house, built in 1879, lies about 2 miles to the north-west of the village ; attached to it is a park. It is now the property of Mr. W. Hanscombe. High Down, the property of Mr. F. A. Delme Radcliffe, and now occupied by Mrs. Pollard, stands on
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE remain* of a large I /th-century fireplace ; its chimney corners are now hidden by cupboards. There is an old timber bake-house on the north side of the house, and a contemporary bridge-house of timber and plaster .-pans the moat. Pirton Hall, a large red brick house, built in 1879, lies about 2 miles to the north-west of the village ; attached to it is a park. It is now the property of Mr. W. Hanscombe. High Down, the property of Mr. F. A. Delme Radcliffe, and now occupied by Mrs. Pollard, stands on high ground about three-quarters of a mile south-west of the village. It was apparently the manor-house of the manor of Pirton, and was probably begun about 1599 by Thomas Docwra, lord of the manor, whose arms with the date 1599 appear on the south side of the house. His arms with his name and that of jane Periam and date 1613 are also over the entrance gateway to the stables. The house is of two stories with basement, and is built of plastered flint and dunch. The main wing forms the south side of a courtyard, and is entered by a gabled porch projecting from its south front and rising the whole height of the house. On the eastern side of the entrance passage is the hall (now the dining-room) ; on the west are the pantry and some small rooms, with a staircase beyond leading to the floor above. North of the entrance passage is the staircase hall, out of which the morning- room opens to the west and the drawing-room to the east. The drawing-room continuing northward forms the short arm of the |_- The kitchens are in the. ^m [ Arms of Sir Thomas Docwr* High Down basement under the drawing ,nd the dining A range of out-building. form, the western boundary of the courtyard . on the north side are the stables. In the north-cast gable of the stables a stone panel has buen inserted with a shield of the Docwra arms, the date 1504 and the name of 'Thomas Docwra Miles,' who was pri
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